“URBAN Suburban” is opening tomorrow at Canberra Museum and Gallery in Civic, running until June 21.
Curated by Leanne Santoro, the exhibition highlights works of Canberra, Queanbeyan and surrounds from the CMAG collection from the 1960s to today, looking at this region as a place where people live.
The Sixteen
IN celebration of our 50th year, the ANU School of Music is proud to present The Sixteen, one of the world’s greatest vocal ensembles. The Sixteen’s concert programme is entitled ‘The Queen of Heaven’ and features a new version of Allegri’s famous ‘Miserere’ alongside James MacMillan’s setting of the text and glorious choral music by Palestrina. 7.30pm 6 March, Bookings to ticketek.com.au
Margaret Kalms, A Carillion Moon Roll, 2014.
TUGGERANONG Arts welcomes a photographer, a textile artist, an abstract painter and 3 poets to the Centre in March to coincide with our 25th birthday celebrations. Brother-sister combo Adele Rae Cameron and Craig Cameron present the Used, Drawn and Dyed exhibition; and photographer Margaret Kalms and a group of School of Music poets present Iconic Moon. Both exhibitions open at 6pm on Thursday 5 March and continue until 28 March.
THERE are only days left to catch the latest exhibition at the National Archives of Australia A Ticket to Paradise? The exhibition examines the rich diversity of Australian immigrants and the government’s ambitious plans after World War II to encourage mass migration. People can add their own migrant stories while visiting the exhibition or online through the National Archives website www.destinationaustralia.gov.au A Ticket to Paradise? is on at the National Archives in Canberra until 9 March 2015. Gallery hosts will conduct guided tours during the Enlighten weekend 6, 7 March.
APPLICANTS are invited to apply for the position of Manager, Arts Infrastructure and Public Art based in Canberra. The position works collaboratively with senior management in the planning, delivery and management of all capital works, arts facilities matters and public art for the artsACT. Eligibility/Other Requirements Qualifications and experience in Design, Landscape Architecture or a related field within the government sector is desirable. Applications close 10 March to jobs.act.gov.au .
QUEANBEYAN Art Society has its Abstract & Abstraction Art Exhibition running all month at the Gallery, 6 Trinculo Place Queanbeyan, under the bridge on the Queanbeyan River bank.
Felicity Green, Into the sky (detail) 2015
M16 Artspace has three new exhibitions at 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith, opening tonight at 6pm, all welcome. These are ‘What’s Inside a Girl’, by Felicity Green, ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ by Lis Johnson and Julie-Anne Armstrong-Roper and Small Works by M16 Studio Artists. exhibitions open 6pm Thursday 5 March And run to 5pm Sunday 22 March Gallery open 12 – 5pm Wednesday to Sunday.
MAORI weavers Ruth Port and Mandy Sunlight arrived at Canberra Glassworks to begin their two week residency as International Artists in Residence. They will present a Maori Weavers Workshop between 9.30am and 2.30pm on Saturday 7 March where participants will experience a Maori welcome at the beginning of the workshop and then learn how to create woven flowers in different forms and weave a beautiful bracelet. Bookings essential to 6260 7005 or contactus@canberraglassworks.com A FREE public talk will be presented during the session at 11am on Saturday 7 March 2015 – all welcome.
Work by Gabrielle Soulsby
‘IMPRESSIONS’is an exhibition of contemporary works by local emerging artists Susan Banks, Tobias Clack, Leonie Gill, Andrea McCuaig, Pauline Raison, Dionisia Salas and Gabrielle Soulsby, whose work operates within the realm of abstraction. At The Q Exhibition Space Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre Rear of 253 Crawford Street Queanbeyan, Weekdays 10am – 4pm Saturdays 10am – 2pm until March 14.
works by Sarit Cohen
AN exhibition of new works by Sarit Cohen is at Canberra City Framing Gallery & Kaori Gallery Cnr London Circuit & Hobart Place Civic Mon to Fri 9.00am – 5.30pm Sat 9.00am – 1.00pm. Cohen explores her interest in domestic utensils and their sometimes unexpected relationships, as they function in the domestic environment.
IRELAND-based gypsy guitar luminary Ian Date and Australian jazz singer favourite Hetty Kate are teaming up for a show in Smith’s Alternative Bookstore at night on Sunday 8th March. Date recently joined James Morrison’s Big Band on a national tour as well as the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Expect an evening of music from The Great American Songbook.
CONTEMPORARY French Ceramics by Christian Faillat – wood fired stoneware Yves Gaget – raw glazed French terracotta Brigitte Long – bisque and raku fired white stoneware Jean-Marc Plantier – Raku Nu fired white stoneware Maryse Tavernier – porcelain glazed with celadon, copper red & yellow are on show at Karen O’Clery’s Narek Galleries in the Old Tanja Church, 1140 Tathra-Bermagui Rd Tanja, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 10.30 to 5.30 until 22 March.
THE Vinyl Lounge anticipates St Patrick’s Day this Friday 6 March, 5:30-6:30pm in the National Film and Sound Archive Theatrette, McCoy Cct Acton. Drinks and nibbles from 5 pm. The March edition celebrates all things Irish, and the Irish influence on Australian music. Don’t forget to wear something green! FREE event.
‘POPULATE or Perish!’ by Anja Loughhead presents the culmination of a yearlong residency with CCAS. Visual survey of the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, active in Albury-Wodonga from 1947 – 70, it uses newspaper clippings and found photographs to reveal a sinister undercurrent in Australia’s migration history. Opening 6pm Thursday 5th March until 15th March at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 19 Furneaux Street, Manuka, runs Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm.
Graeme Drendel – ‘The delegate’, watercolour and gouache on paper
Marianne Huhn – ‘Policy – Climate change’, limoges porcelain, oxide incised.
NEW exhibitions at Beaver Galleries are of Graeme Drendel’s recent works on paper that are “stripped back to the bare essentials,” and an exhibition of work by two ceramic artists – Kevin White and Marianne Huhn. Through their individual application of surface imagery on porcelain, both artists imbue meaning into their functional vessels and forms. AT 81 Denison Street Deakin, 5 – 24 March, Tue to Fri 10am – 5pm & Sat and Sun 9am – 5pm
ARTIST Raymond Kan is still holding traditional Chinese landscapes drawing classes at the Playing Field Studio, 2 Kingsley Street Acton, (corner of Barry Drive) every Saturday morning. You can contact him at raykan@tpg.com.au or turn up between 9am and 12 noon on Saturdays.
CANADIAN folk singer Gordie Tentrees will be at Smith’s Alternative Bookshop Friday, March 6, at 7:30 PM. Tentrees was a three time Golden Glove Champion on the amateur Canadian boxing circuit before working in a cross section of jobs, including a school teacher, youth worker, counsellor , and mentor for at-risk kids. Tickets at the door.
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